1940-03-29 — Page 13

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 29, 1940.

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German Fun with the A.T.S.

Here are some German cartoons. This time the cartoonists make the girls of our A.T.S. their target.

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THE CAMERA

Take Photographs From Angles

Kodak

Amateurs get

niore good pictures

per roll when they buy

VERICHROME

Gets the

picture where ordinary films fail

Mummy arrives home on leave

(Kölnische Zeitung)

FAVOURITES OF THE RADIO

on

PARLOPHONE

Orchestre Mascolte

R2502. Count of Luxemburg

Merry Vienna

R2576-Artistes life

Vienna Bonbons

Richard Tauber

RO20447-Love serenade. (Drigon),

Don't be CTO33

RO20437 Sweethearts. (Sweethearts)

Waltz of my heart, (Dancing years)

Magyari Imre and Hungarian Orch,

R2701-You gave me the first kiss, Out in the Puszta

It's a great pity. In the cafe

R2043-Bihari

. Serenade

Ella Logan and Orch. R2033-Adios Muchachos

I'm forever blowing bubbles R2011-Two sleepy people

New Orleans

Orchestre Georges Txipine

R2000-Bolero. (Ravel)

K2710-Fantasy on famous airs of Schubert

TSANG FOOK, PIANO COMPANY

MARINA HOUSE

19, QUEEN'S ROAD C..

PHONE 24648,

"Stand at Ease !"

-(Kóbische Illustrierte Zeltung)

養魚魚

* Prophetic Picture: After 12 months in Franco

(Kolnische Illustrierte Zeltung)

Still at her post

{Kölnische Mustrierte Zelfung)

Experts in the art of Camouflage

(Kolnische Illustrierte Zeitung)

"It passes the time on sentry duty"

"We must find her another job. She doesn't

suit this platoon

(Lustige Blätter, Berlin)

The

IN one cor- ner of the room Bridget, my youngest daughter, is playing happily with a doll's house,

It is hor idea of home- planning, and I know how serious it is, for I have just been called in to help with the decorating.

Bot

When I pointed out, the bare- news of the windows I was told that in her street there was no black-out.. The Information has

me wondering. What will the houses of Bio future look like? They may bo camouflaged or even built below ground. Or they may have to withstand nothing worse than bad weather.

But it is of their owners, our children, that I am thinking. It sems unfair to leave them with such a rotten world, and I confera that whenever I see a child with a gas-mosk I feel ashamed.

(Lustige Blätter. Berlin)

Can you identify this subject? The answer is below with other ideas for novel and amusing picturea you can take.

WHEN you run out of idens

for the usual type of pictures ry your hand at unusual pictures.

Look out for novel angle shots, and opportunities for "puzzle plc- such tures." This is fun-and shots will add novelty to your' snapshot album.

There are all sorts of unusual things worth trying. For example, odd lighting effects when you are taking night snapshots. Instead of having your photo bulbs at eye level, put them on the floor for a few shots,so that they shine up cast toward your subjects, and long shadows on the wall. It's a slunt that yields surprising effects.

Try shots at unusual angles. Take a picture from an upstairs window, with a subject directly below you looking straight upward. Try a steep up-angle shot of a tall building. Shoot straight down a stairway well-

The picture above is a shot of a deep circular staircase, taken with the camera pointed almost straight down. You'll agree It makes a novel effect.

For another stunt, iry tricks with perspective. Take a shot of a sub- Ject sitting down, with his feet ex- tended toward the camera, If the feet are fairly close to the lens, they will show up absurdly large in the plcture.

For shots such as this, use the smallest lens opening on your cam- era, as you need extra "depth of feld." It won't matter if the near- est objects are slightly out of focus, but they shouldn't be too "fuzzy." Try some double-exposure tricks. For example, a close-up shot of n newspaper page-and then a close- up of a person on the same alm. Vse'n dark background for the shot of the person. You can pro- duce some unusual "combination" effects in thla manner.

World Needs

God

not wise the freest government is

My generation inherited a world BY E. R. Appleton compelled to be a tyranny. And

which was merely a time-bomb in disguise, waiting to explode. The

next generation hos received much the same, but with a generous supply of bigger and better gas- masks. Horrors still more devilish may be in store for our children.

The amazing thing is that the vast majority of humaIX beings loathe aggression. They want a world fit for children to live in.

But they lack the power to get It because they have nothing to draw them together. If only they could find one simple idea to work upon- kind of alchest common factor of all their differ- ent ways of thinking-the new world would be theirs.

PLANS there are in plenty. But will they work?

Most of them seem to mo to They start at the wrong end. deal with maps and not, with

Founder of the famous B.B.C. Sunday evening "Silent Fellow-

ship" broadcasts.

men. They expect to join nations like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle. And I confess that I am suspicious of any plan which starts with Interna- World Committees and lonal Federations.

Sooner or later they get plas tered with protocols and fled up with their own bureaucracy. The League of Nations fulled be. cause, to quote one of its leading delegates, "there was not enough faith for so big a church."

My own plan deals first with individualea. It includes a simple charter of faith as a guide to the every-day relationships of with his fellowmen.

man

For I agree with William Blake when he says that "If people are

history shows that the greatest movements are those that spring from the people.

Over-organisation, as we have just seen, can itself be an evil. But the three evils that most affect us to-day are fear, loneliness and

can oppression. Onco we

clear them away we shall see the dawn of our new world.

My plan, therefore; is based upon one Idea which has within

the seeds of deliverance from these evils. This idea can be ex- pressed in one word-companion- alipa word which originally, meant the sharing of bread.

the

But the companionship that I mean Is Itke that of

Good Samaritan; it looks upon all people as the children of a loving Giver ol. Lifc.

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I am not suggesting .vague Idealism. Starting with this one

Tr all these stunts-and keep your eyes open for other novel plc- ture chances. They'll give added spice to your camera hobby.

John van Guilder

Spotting the Rank

LIEUTENANT

There are moro officers of this rank on the active list of the Royal Navy than any other, the total at the out- break of war being over 1.300. But on the rotired. -and-emergency-lists-there

were only 763.

Like Caplain, the rank of Licu- tenant is derived from the French, by way of the Army. When war- ships were produced by the simple method of arming merchant vessels and "embarking fighting men In them, the officer appointed in com- mand held the military rank of Captain

When a second officer necom- panied him as his deputy, he was given the rank of Lieutenant. Literally this implied "tenant in Ilen" of the Captain, Lo whose duties he would automatically suc- coed if the latter were killed or Incapacitated.

Since these early days the in- troduction of the intermediate ranks of Commander and Lieuten- ant-Commander has caused the relative importance of the Lieuten- ant to decllac. But this is some- what mitigated by the fact that ho automatically becomes a Lleuten- ant-Commander after eight years.

word we have planned In detail, amidst other things, a

new

system of education,

a bridge between, de- nominations,

safe- guards for the roads, and a new charter for Industry.

tested Our plans have been quietly for two years and are now ready

action. to be put into Numerous small companies are being formed for study as well as recreation,

*

of

Dat we want an

army helpers-everyone who is ready

who

to borral companion and particularly those little children,

We can expect some people to Encer at our efforts, just as the Koronites and Ammonites neered at Nehemiah.

Let us answer them In Neht- miah's own words: "The God of Heaven, Ho will prosper us; there- forn wo His servants will arise and build."

There must be no more block- oulk

Go Empress!

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